Bayfield County will consider passing a moratorium on large-scale farms at a Wednesday night meeting, though it's unclear whether the moratorium would apply to a concentrated animal feeding operation that an Iowa-based company has proposed building in the area.

Americans often pay tribute to service industry and other blue-collar workers by praising their physical stamina or dignity, or event their economic value. But according to author Mike Rose, we rarely celebrate the intellect of the American blue-collar worker.

An Assembly Republican effort to pare down the state's administrative rules will continue this year. The push known last session as “Right the Rules” will go by the new name “Red Tape Review.” Administrative rules are the fine details of laws. They're written by specialists in state agencies at the...

A group of corn producers in Wisconsin are filing a class action lawsuit against Syngenta AG, an agribusiness company that develops genetically modified seeds, for selling a seed that hadn't yet been approved in China, one of the U.S.'s biggest corn importers.

Transporation Secretary Mark Gottlieb announced on Tuesday that the state had rejected plans to double-deck a four-mile section of freeway in Milwaukee, and would instead pursue widening the corridor to four lanes.